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Saudi Arabia is preparing to expand access to alcohol in the conservative Muslim country with plans to open two liquor…

The European Commission president has warned against “the unilateral carving up of a sovereign European nation” as Europe scrambles to assert influence over the US’s attempt to end the war in Ukraine.

Speaking to European lawmakers in…

Hundreds of Israeli soldiers supported by armoured vehicles have conducted raids in the Palestinian town of Tubas near Nablus in the biggest such military deployment by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the ceasefire came into effect…

NEW DELHI — India has lodged a protest with China over what it called an “arbitrary detention” of an Indian citizen at the Shanghai airport after the traveler from a northeastern state said she was held for hours because Chinese authorities…

The death toll from a huge fire that has engulfed several residential tower blocks in Hong Kong has risen to 36, with a further 279 people reported missing, the city’s leader, John Lee, said in the early hours of Thursday morning.

A taskforce…

Israel’s more than two-year genocidal war has forced nearly all of Gaza’s two million people from their homes to live in makeshift tents in displacement camps.

Added to their suffering is the prospect of harsh winter storms and flooding that…

The United Nations leadership has launched a major reform plan to make the cash-strapped world body more efficient and cost-effective. Unfortunately, it has offered little on how this will impact the UN’s already understaffed and…

Jack Lau
Global China Unit, reporting from Hong Kong

Flats in Wang Fuk Court average between 400 and 500 square feet. The estate,…